Win The Life

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. - Rainer Maria Rilke

 

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. - Hannah Arendt

 

Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. - Pope John Paul II

 

Revenge, is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. - Jeremy Taylor

 

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. - William James

 

Non-violence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. - Joan Baez

 

Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation. - Robert F. Kennedy

 

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant. - Rollo May

 

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!- - Unknown

 

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. – Unknown

 

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. – Unknown

 

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. – Unknown

 

Poverty is the worst form of violence. – Unknown

 

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. – Unknown

 

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. – Unknown

 

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world. – Unknown

 

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. – Unknown

 

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. – Unknown

 

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. – Unknown

 

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. – Unknown

 

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. – Unknown

 

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. – Unknown

 

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. – Unknown

 

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid. – Unknown

 

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. -Chinese Proverb

 

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? -Alan Paton

 

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. -John Frederick Boyes

 

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. -Daniel Webster

 

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. -Abraham Lincoln

 

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. -Max Stirner

 

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? – Unknown

 

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. – Unknown

 

Nonviolence, exactly like violence, is a means of persuasion, a technique for political activism, a recipe for prevailing. – Unknown

 

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. – Unknown

 

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. – Unknown

 

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. – Unknown

 

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. - Unknown